Bible Time2008-07-09: Summit Meeting(s)
This date is the second of 2 dates skipped by the plague series of dates, this date is within the 3 days covered by the plague of swarms (flies).
This date is interesting because it is on the series of prophetic dates that began in 2006 and happen once every 30 days.
When the Pope visited Washington DC and New York City in April his public meetings mapped prophetically to each of the Plague related dates in 2008 (and January of 2009). This particular date is informed by the Pope’s visit to the United Nations in New York City.
On Thursday morning of his visit he departed Washington DC’s Andrews Airforce Base for New York’s JKF airport. He traveled by helicopter to Manhattan Island, for a long, 3 hour, visit at the United Nations headquarters building.
The Invitation
The speeches and introductions given around the Pope at the United Nations headquarters clearly indicated that this was the culmination of an invitation given one year before to the day. That date, April 17, 2007, was part of another plague series date, Zipporah at the Inn: Bridegroom of Blood.
The text for that prophetic story included the story of how Aaron was on his way to visit Moses. The following is the associated text:
2 Exodus 4:10-17
10And Moses said to Yahvah, I beg you, my Master, I am not eloquent, not previously nor since you spoke to your servant; for I am a stutterer and slow of speech.
11Yahvah said to him, Who has made man's mouth? Who makes the mute, or the deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Is it not I, Yahvah?
12Now go and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you will speak.
13And Moses said to him, My Master, I beg you, send by the hand of whomever you will send.
14And the anger of Yahvah kindled against Moses, and he said to him, Look, Aaron, your brother, the Levite. I know that he is a good speaker, and also, look, he will come out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
15And you will speak to him and put my words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you will do.
16And he will be your spokesman to the people; and he will be an interpreter for you, and you will be to him instead of God.
17And you will take this staff in your hand, with which you will do signs.
Notice that this passage includes the fact that Moses thinks he is poor of speech, while Yahvah says he gives him speech. When Mr. Ban speaks in public his English is fine, but not of the same tone as it would be if he had been raised speaking English as his native language. This is the feature of his language that is being seen in this prophetic passage.
The UN Speeches
At the United Nations he gave 2 main speeches in the UN’s central hall. (See the USCCB’s video here.) The first speech was to UN delegates assembled from around the world. In the speech he laid out the moral basis for the existence of the United Nations. His reason: Primarily to defend people from despotic governments. (To defend Israelites from Pharaoh’s.)
His second speech was about 2 hours later and was given to employees of the United Nations. During this speech the Pope received wild applause from UN employees. He encouraged them, that they are the ones who carry on the day-to-day operations of the UN, and who provide continuity since the delegates rotate on short term assignments.
Ban Ki-Moon introduced Pope Benedict for both speeches. In Ban’s opening statements before the first speech he provided several important clues to understanding the prophetic significance of this event.
Invited 1 year before, to the day. Ban Ki-Moon had visited Pope Benedict on April 17, 2007, on the first leg of a multi-nation tour. At that visit Mr Ban had invited the Pope to New York City. The timing of this invitation was not widely publicized but it was following the prophetic story for that date, making this visit to the United Nations a fulfillment of events from that earlier prophetic visit.
Veiled references to Mr Ban’s Christianity. Mr Ban’s introduction included several direct, but veiled, references to his own faith. He mentioned that there is no chapel in the United Nations building but that there is a meditation room. He said that it was not dedicated to many gods, nor to an unknown god. He also said that many members of the United Nations, apparently including himself, consider their jobs at the United Nations to be a form of missions work. These statements were very specifically playing to the prophetic text for this meeting, where Moses would not speak God’s words directly, and needed Aaron to speak instead.
Galatians Time Line Fold
There is a time line fold that takes this same date through to the story in Galatians where Paul explains his visit up to Jerusalem. The following is the text.
51 Galatians 2
1Then, 14 years later, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and I also took Titus with me.
2And I went up because of a revelation, and I declared to them the gospel which I preached among the Gentiles, and I privately explained to those who were considered leaders among us, lest by any means, I had labored or should labor in vain.
3And Titus, who was also with me, being Aramean, was not compelled to be circumcised,
4but, because of the false brothers who have come against us to spy out the freedom which we have in Jesus Messiah, with the intention of enslaving us;
5to those false brothers we did not submit, not even for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might remain with you.
6Now those who were considered to be important, what they are makes no difference to me, for God does not discriminate among men, even these very persons, did not contribute additional knowledge to me.
7But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was entrusted to me, as the gospel of the circumcision had been entrusted to Peter,
8for he who made Peter vigorous in the apostleship of the circumcision, has also made me mighty in the apostleship of the Gentiles,
9and when they knew that the grace had been given to me, then Jacob, Peter, and John, who were considered to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we might labor among the Gentiles, and they, among the people of circumcision;
10only they would that we should remember the poor, and that I have endeavored to do.
11But when Peter came to Antioch, I reprimanded him to his face, because he was to be blamed.
12For before certain men came from Jacob, Peter ate with the Gentiles; but after they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision.
13And all the other Jewish converts cast their lot with him on this issue, so that Barnabas was also carried away by their dissimulation.
14But when I saw that they were not following uprightly, according to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in the presence of them all, If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel the Gentile converts to live as the Jews?
15For if we who are of Jewish origin and not sinners of the Gentiles,
16know that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith in Jesus Messiah, even we have believed in Jesus Messiah, that we might be justified by the faith in Messiah and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no human being will be justified.
17But if, while we seek to be justified by Messiah, we ourselves are also found sinners, is our Master Jesus Messiah therefore a minister of sin? Far be it.
18For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I will prove myself to be a transgressor of the law.
19For through the law, I am dead to the law, that I might live to God.
20I am crucified with Messiah; from now on, it is not I who live, but Messiah who lives in me; and the life which I live now in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
21I do not frustrate the grace of God; for if righteousness comes by means of the law, then Messiah died in vain.
Jerusalem is the ancient capital of the Biblical world, and is prophetically a match to the UN headquarters as well as any other world capital where the world has gathered.
The Galatians quote includes Peter’s fear of the Jews, and how he changed his tune depending on the audience. This is a match to Moses’ fear of speaking when he was called by God to speak to the Israelites in Egypt. The stories are both a textual match and a time line match.
Fulfillment
3 general areas fulfill this headline.
G8 Summit in Japan. July 7-9, 2008. This summit is similar in nature to the United Nations and Mr Ban is on the invitation list. This is the 34th such summit, and regular events are rarely complete fulfillment, so this venue must be monitored. Curiously, like the UN itself, this summit meeting is on an island. Topics are listed online.
Collapse of stock prices in Fannie Mae Freddie Mac The event 1 year before on the time line was the sudden collapse of the secondary market for mortgage backed securities. This lead 1 month later to a more widely recognized general credit crisis that began in August of 2007. Of course Fannie and Freddie are the 2 Government Sponsored Entities that form the backbone of the secondary market for mortgages in the United States.
The collapse of their secondary markets did not have a final impact on the stock values until nearly 1 year later, which is itself rather remarkable. Freddie is now considered to have a negative 3 billion dollar value, and the value of outstanding shares is based on the hope that the United States government will bail out the firm.
Problem, the outstanding debt of these 2 firms is roughly equal to current outstanding US debut of around $6 trillion. A bailout, or public assumption of all this debt risks bankrupting the entire US government.
Watching the Pope’s actions for the matched date indicates that his actions point at a transfer from Washington DC to the United Nations in New York City. As all of this mortgage debt is eventually nationalized, the consequence will be transfer of power from Washington to the UN.
The root cause of this transfer of power is the collapse in the debt based funding systems first installed during the Great Depression.
World Youth Day 2008. Held in Sydney, Australia, July 15 - 20. The theme is from Acts 1:8, "...You will receive power... and be my witnesses..." This is a youth event gathering people from around the world. The Pope announced this venue and time after the 2005 version of this same series of rallies.
The Acts 1:8 theme verse for the World Youth Day matches exactly what was going on in the text dealing with Moses and Aaron. They too were about to be witnesses to Pharaoh, and the world. The timing of the World Youth Day is slightly later than would be expected, but the Pope’s time at the United Nations was long, and his second speech, to the workers of the UN, is a prophetic match to the Youth, God’s future workers, the ones with the longest time in, as the speech to the UN employees stressed.
From a geopolitical perspective the key headline for this date was the collapse of the stock price in the GSEs. This is what will cause the eventual transfer of political power to the United Nations.